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Page 123 of 1301906 · PDF PAGE 275
TIME 269 Myst. Oh never! The word “real” im- plies to us subjectivity; a thing is only real to us so far as it is known by us; even its Un- knowability is a species of knowledge of it: and, by Savitri! when I say real Zo us, I say real absolutely, since all things lie to me in the radius of my sensorium. ‘‘ To others” is a vain phrase, Scept. True; for those ‘‘ others” only exist for you inasmuch as, and in so far as, they are modifications of your own thought-stuff.! . Myst. Agreed, then; instead of looking through the glasses of the metaphysi…
1906 · PDF PAGE 241
…. I boldly take up the glove against all previous wisdom, 1 Or as the Sunday-school boy said: ‘‘ Faith is the power of believing what we know to be untrue.’’ I quote Deussen with the more pleasure, because it is about the only sentence In all his writings with which I am in accord. revert to the most elementary ideas of canni- bal savages, challenge all the most vital premisses and axiomata that have passed current coin with philosophy for centuries, and present my theory. I clearly foresee the one difficulty, and will discuss it in advance. If…
1929 · PDF PAGE 378
…cial confusion but rather conflicting statute. {606} the landing with a candle, in hysterics, leaning over the balustrade and calling to know who was there. I said, "It is only some beastly burglar," took the candle and went down. No one in the hall. In the dining-room, in pitch darkness, Gnaggs was standing, trembling, as white as a fish's belly. I lit up, called upstairs that all was well, and told him he had no business to frighten his wife. He seemed incapable of speech. I got him a drink and he gradually pulled himself together. We started…
1929 · PDF PAGE 129
…h-water. All the same, I feel grateful. Her stupid lie put it into my head to make the experiment in question, though of course with the knowledge and approval of the girl. The result is recorded in a subsequent chapter. {225} When I began to develop this power consciously, I obtained considerable success. At the time of this journey I had arranged to visit a sister of the Order who lived in Hong Kong; at prearranged times, so that she might be looking out for me. Several of these visits turned out well. She saw and heard me; and on comparing n…
1944 · PDF PAGE 22
… matter. The Point, the Line, the Plane. The fourth point, unless it should happen to lie in the plane, gives The Solid. If one wants to know the position of any point, one must define it by the use of three co‐ordinate axes. It is so many feet from the North wall, and so many feet from the East wall, and so many feet from the floor. Thus there has been developed from Nothingness a Something which can be said to exist. One has arrived at the idea of Matter. But this existence is exceedingly tenuous, for the only property of any given point is i…
1929 · PDF PAGE 348
…rt of a goddess, And the brain of a man, and the wings of the morning Clipped by the shears of the silence; so must I wander lonely, Nor know of the light till I enter into the darkness. He possessed the magical gift of conveying an idea of tremendous {563} vividness and importance by means of words that are unintelligible to the intellect. I go as Thunder that come but as a bird.
1906 · PDF PAGE 196
… of repute. 51. Haraday.—See Dictionary of National Biography. 64. /, of the Moderns, have alone Greek,A— As far as they would let me. I know some. 74. Beard,.—'‘ 150, A Barba Senioris Sanc- tissimi pendet omnis ornatus omnium: & in- fluentia ; nam omnia appellantur ab illa barba, Influentia. ‘‘r51. Hic est ornatus omnium ornatuum: Influentie superiores & inferiores omnes respi- ciunt istam Influentiam. ‘* 152. Ab ista influentia dependet vita om- nium, ‘© 153. Ab hac influentia dependent cceli & terra ; pluvize beneplaciti; & alimenta omnium. …
1929 · PDF PAGE 91
…towards the galvanization of the political, ethnological and literary corpse of the Irish nation. Ireland has been badly treated, we all know; but her only salvation lay in forgetting her nonsense. What is the use of setting up a scarecrow provincialism, in re-establishing a barbarous and fantastic language which is as dead as Gothic and cannot boast sufficient literature to hold the attention of any but a few cloistered scholars --- at the price of cutting Ireland off from the main stream of civilization? We see already that the country has sl…
1906 · PDF PAGE 216
…ll and Knight On Algebra. . I hired wise men To teach them six, seven, eight, nine, ten. One of the Hottentots succeeded. Few schoolboys know as much as he did! The others sank beneath the strain : It broke, not fortified, the brain. The Bard a Brainy Beggar. Now (higher on the Human Ladder) Lodge is called mad, and Crowley madder. (The shafts of Science who may dodge? I’ve not a word to say for Lodge.) Yet may not Crowley be the one Who safely does what most should shun ? Alpine Analogy. Take Oscar Eckenstein—he climbs Alone, unroped, a thousa…
1929 · PDF PAGE 145
… violently with the jubilant rage of riotous religious excitement. It communicated a sort of magnificent madness to the mind. One didn't know what it meant or if it meant anything particular. One was not hampered by knowledge; one could let oneself go. One felt a tense, tremendous impulse to do something demoniac. Yet one had no idea what. It put one's nerves on the rack. It was almost a torture to feel so intensely, and desire so deliriously, such unintelligible irritations. Hours passed in this intoxicating excitement. One can understand perf…
1929 · PDF PAGE 239
…elp us to understand what is implied, and what effect to expect, in the world of thought and action. Horus avenged his father Osiris. We know that the sun (indeed, every element of nature) does not suffer death. {399} The child is not merely a symbol of growth, but of complete moral independence and innocence. We may then expect the New Aeon to release mankind from its pretence of altruism, its obsession of fear and its consciousness of sin. It will possess no consciousness of the purpose of its own existence. It will not be possible to persuad…
1904 · PDF PAGE 75
…Hall and Knight On Algebra. I hired wise men To teach them six, seven, eight, nine, ten. One of the Hottentots succeeded. Few schoolboys know as much as he did ! The others sank beneath the strain : It broke, not fortified, the brain. The Bard a Brainy Beggar. Now (higher on the Human Ladder) Lodge is called mad, and Crowley madder. (The shafts of Science who may dodge ? I’ve not a word to say for Lodge.) Yet may not Crowley be the one Who safely does what most should shun ? Alpine Analogy. Take Oscar Eckenstein—he climbs Alone, unroped, a thou…
1929 · PDF PAGE 414
…rite to him immediately and put myself entirely at his disposition. I don't so much as ask whether he is in the right or no, unless that knowledge is necessary to efficient help. I can hardly explain why I act in this extraordinary way, but I think the theory is somewhat as follows: I being in relation with {658} the man, he is a part of my individuality, and my duty to myself is to see that he is flourishing. If I sprain my ankle I must use all my resources to put it right, and even if my ankle has damaged me in the course of the accident, by …
1929 · PDF PAGE 87
…ally, I have found chess solitaire and triple-dummy bridge or skat as good as anything. Eckenstein was a recognized authority on what is known as Kirkwood's schoolgirl problem, but we used to work all sorts of things, from problems connected with Mersenne's numbers and Fermat's binary theorem to the purely frivolous attempt to represent any given number by the use of the number four, four times --- neither more nor less, relating them by any of the accepted symbols of mathematical operations. Thus: 18 = 4 (4.4) + .4 38 = 14 + . + 4 106 = ł4 + 4…
1929 · PDF PAGE 391
…aved, the more he inspired the inhabitants with respect for the Magician who had mastered so fantastic and fearful a genie. Few tourists know even the most elementary facts about such simple matters as climate. I myself was amazed to find how many of the ideas which I had derived from my reading were utterly incorrect. Once, for instance we arrived at an inn late at night. It was shut. We had heard that when the coach arrived they would open, so we decided to wait for the half hour or so, as we needed food and sleep. It was a cold, drear night.…
1929 · PDF PAGE 334
…as away the mice had been extremely busy. Fuller and I had clearly understood the imminence of the world catastrophe. We did not exactly know where civilization would begin to crack, or when; we were content to leave such speculations to the Prophet Baxter, the Rev. Booth Clibborn and such small deer. But we saw the New Zealander sitting on the ruined arch of London Bridge quite clearly. We could also see the Professor of Archaeology in the University of Lhasa excavating the ruins of the British Museum. He discovered a vast number of volumes of…
1929 · PDF PAGE 406
…ius was the most obscene insult which could have been imagined. Martial never composed an epigram so indecently mocking. {647} I did not know that this outrage had been perpetrated. I had gone to the cemetery simply to see if the tarpaulin had been replaced. I confess that I fully enjoyed the flavour of this foul jest. It was all the more pungent because unintentional. (The idea had been simply to make a quiet, inconspicuous modification. It is really strange how polite propriety is always stumbling into Rabelaisian jests. I remember, for insta…
1906 · PDF PAGE 244
…ole system-of numbers, and of manipulating them, is merely a series of conventions When I say that the square root of three is unreal, I know quite well that it is only so in relation to the series 1, 2, 3, &c., and that this series is equally unreal if I make 4/3, 7, 2/50 the members of a ternary scale. But this, theoretically true, is practically absurd. If I mean ‘‘the number of.a, b, and c,”’ it does not matter if I write 3 or 3/50; the idea is a definite one; and it is the funda- mental ideas of consciousness of which we are treating, and …
1904 · PDF PAGE 123
… has finished the Path—he has destroyed the cause of all his chain of lives, and has become Arahan, a Saint, a Buddha himself.” But none knows better than the venerable Bhikkhu himself, as indeed he makes clear with regard to the steps Sam mávayamo and above, that these interpretations are but reflections of those upon a higher plane— the scientific plane. They are (I have little doubt) for those who have attained to them mnemonic keys to whole classes of pheno- mena of the order anciently denominated magical, phenomena which, s ince the h uman…
1929 · PDF PAGE 5
…es: in the days of Bad Queen Bess there was a Bishop Crowley, who wrote epigrams in the style of Marital. One of them --- the only one I know --- runs thus: